Rex Trulove
For some people, food just doesn’t taste right if herbs, spices, and seasonings aren’t used for seasoning. Other people don’t realize how much of a difference adding herbs to food can make. There are people who occasionally cook with herbs but often cook without using them. There are yet other people who have never learned how to cook with herbs or perhaps they don’t cook very often.
Hey, I can relate to that. Back when I got married, my wife did cook, but her idea of spicing food was adding salt and pepper. She didn’t know how much of a difference herbs can make. After almost 40 years, she has become a very good cook. Yet, if she has the choice, she still wants me to season the food she’s cooking. She has learned, though, that herbs can make even flavorless foods flavorful.
This poll is to find out how many people use culinary herbs and how many don’t.
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I use herbs in most of the foods I cook
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Yes
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No
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I use herbs in only some of the foods I cook
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Yes
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No
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I rarely use herbs in the foods I cook
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Yes
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No
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I don’t know which herbs to use in food
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Yes
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No
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I don’t cook
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Yes
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No
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its nice to see those beautiful recipes
I cook a lot, but don’t use a lot of herbs…and just a few spices. Personally I am good with salt and pepper most of the time.
My wife was that way when I met her. She actually knew how much better that food could be made by using herbs, but she had no idea which herbs went with which foods.
Yeah, I never really knew…I should know some since I would love to become a chef lol
If I’m not mistaken, they have whole courses on herbs, spices, and seasonings in culinary schools. That said, I’ll admit that I don’t use all herbs. I use most, but I despise cilantro. My son-in-law is Guatemalan and they use a lot of cilantro in their food. He told me a secret, though, that most Guatemalans probably won’t admit. They use cilantro because they totally love mint, but mint won’t grow there. I made a Guatemalan dish for him and substituted mint for cilantro and sure enough, he ranted about it. That is strange, too, because cilantro doesn’t have the slightest resemblance in flavor to mint.
I am sure they do….and I wish I could go to culinary school and learn all of that (although I am probably sure I could learn enough online nowadays).
I’ve never tried cilantro, but heard it’s one of those things you either love or hate..So I can understand despising it.
That’s very interesting story though! (although I never would have known if it resembled mint at all since I am not familiar with it’s taste)
I enjoy cooking with all sorts of herbs and spices. 🙂
I’m the same way. There are few foods that I cook that I don’t use herbs and seasonings with.
Same here. 🙂 These are dishes I’ve learnt from my granny and want to have their original taste. All the others, I like to “spoil” with herbs and spices. I even grow some of these in my back yard. That’s why my daughter calls me “the kitchen witch”. 😀
The kitchen witch! I’ll remember that ??
Hahahahahaha! It’s not related to me…… only…. 😀
I seem to end up planting more herbs every year. Just the perennials I currently have include chives (in five different places), oregano x4, thyme, peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint, sweet mint, catnip, lemon balm, lavender, and sage. I plant basil almost every year, too.
You’re my idol! Unfortunately, I have very small part of soil and last summer some cherry tomatoes got wild and took almost the whole parcel. Poor basil, wild mint and dill barely stayed alive. This spring, I’ll have to plant some marigold, too, for making salves.
I use herbs and spices all the time in cooking, and I cook every day. I have a similar story about wife and cooking 🙂
What is funny is that I didn’t learn how to use herbs in cooking from being a professional cook. I learned from my mother and grandmother. Both were better cooks than I’ll probably ever be.
I use! Interesting pool my friend! Have a great day!
I’m glad you liked it. I find it quite interesting to learn what people think and do in regard to using herbs.
I even have a dessert that I use basil in!
I commonly use mints of different kinds, including basil, and anise in a number of recipes, too. (Anise isn’t a kind of mint, but basil is.)
I cook very often and use lots of different herbs in each meal.
I do, too. That is one reason I grow herbs, in fact. I also use them medicinally.